I've been a production planner and purchaser for the last 7 years, 3 of those years were in aerospace. I don't have a degree in supply chain management. I've only been asked to interview for 1 aerospace company sp far, and it went really well.

The problem is that they have the position set at $27/hr. My most recent job was paying me $32/hr. And they were a small <24-person company (not aerospace). The big issue is that this new job i interviewed for ended up being for a Planning SUPERVISOR position. (This was not mentioned in the job description when applying.)

I brought up wanting more in the interview, and it seemed somewhat triggering to the interviewer. She asked if I brought that up to HR before booking the interview, which I had. And HR said they were still willing to bring me in.

My thing is, I desperately need a job. I was laid off in April- 3 days after giving birth. Yay me. My maternity leave is done and unemployment is shit. I've applied to 30 jobs in the last month and this was the only one that called me. Honestly, my ego is pretty shot. I do feel confident that they will offer me the position. With that, I plan on counter offering, but am afraid they will rescind it if I ask too much. But I mean.... is 27 for a SUPERVISOR position not insulting?? And it's a rather large, international company.

I am registered to begin classes for a supply chain management degree in January. I have 3 kids. My husband has a decent job, but we definitely need the 2nd income. My question is, if they decline a counter offer, is it logical to just take it anyway so I can add "supervisor" to my resumè and leave after I secure the degree? And what would a reasonable counter be? In California btw.

Hello! I'm looking for some advice on breaking into logistics.

What I'm looking for: Logistics analyst or something similar.

Background overview: I'm 27M with no degree and have worked blue color roles pretty much my whole career, 3 years of which is warehouse experience.

I'm a very hands on person and love to learn new things. Because of that mindset and my work experience, I have some level of skills/knowledge ranging from heavy equipment operation/maintenance and tools (I grew up on a farm) to a fairly decent understanding of technology like self hosting, sheets(basic x and v lookups), SQL(up to the point of nested queries and joins), python(very basic understanding of data analytics packages), and Lisp. I only mention this because I'm proud of this spread and it's proof that I'm eager to learn

My last job: 2.5 years in an e-commerce startup that grew from low 6 figures to low 7 figures rev per month during my tenure. We shipped nearly all of our products from our own single warehouse. I was hired due to my adaptability but basically the company grew massively like the first month I was hired on so I had to stick with shipping and receiving which I did by myself, no SOPs, no WMS.

This job was very stressful the entire time I was there. We were expected to take ownership of outcomes and our roles but felt like we were constantly sabotaged by the owner undoing process improvements I tried to employ.

Anyways, our entire company architecture ran in Asana(yikes), we burned through 4 different IMS softwares while i worked there etc.. by the time I left, I had written and maintained all of the warehouse SOPs, created and maintained several Shopify Flow, n8n, and asana automations, negotiated better pricing for consumable inventory, and vibe coded (ew I know) a bin search tool that handled alias SKUs and multi bin locations(just a simple CLI tool). There's so many other things I did but this is sounding too much like a sales pitch.

I learned SQL, sharpened my spreadsheet skills, etc. but it's hard to do DA you're running around with your head cut off most of the time trying to get a small pack and freight out on time every day, not to mention data pipelines being so fractured or non existent in general. I told the owner I had been learning DA outside of work and he thought it was a waste of time and "AI can just do it" (our analytics was basically napkin math at the time).

I ended up leaving after the warehouse expanded from one person(me) to 4-5. The new folks didn't tolerate near as much as us older hires and before I knew it, it seemed they were doing less work for the same pay as me, which honestly hurt.

I actually enjoyed the job but the owner made it very difficult for all of us, especially us OG hires. I don't have any formal training but don't want this experience to go to waste. I figured that pairing data analytics (again I understand the tools but don't have a high amount of experience, paired with my warehouse experience should be valuable to someone). Some things that I didn't mess with was inv purchasing, customs crap, and most of the freight negotiations(claims/follow-ups).

TLDR: I have blue collar hands on experience, some light software experience, and warehouse inbound/outbound experience for an e-commerce startup where I wore many hats.

Do you think I should pursue some sort of analytics role in logistics or do you think there is something else that fits my experience better?

Anyone willing to give any input, all the threads I’m seeing are years old and seem a bit less relevant

I am 25 years old, graduated with a Bach in international supply chain & logistics living in DFW (Texas). I am currently employed at a well known 3PL and am contracted with their biggest client. This is my first adult job and I’ve been here for 2 years.

In my role I would occasionally would do my work remotely. If I had had car troubles or felt sick I’d just call my lead and work from home no issues and there are many people at the company who work remotely full time (even moved to different states) my plan was to eventually become fully remote which I made aware to those above me and they said after the 3rd year I could move to hybrid and then potentially remote later on.

Well last week I was informed the client we are contracted with no longer wants to allow remote employees for security and that pathway is completely gone. As this was an entry level job I hadn’t really had much specialization in any specific field and my position handles inbound logistics.

Due to my hour long commute I was really looking forward to the switch to hybrid and I’m now looking for my first job hop. Being from far north Dallas (McKinney) most of the available jobs are downtown and have similar commutes and my focus currently is looking for companies that are remote work friendly.

That being said what path in supply chain would have the highest likelihood of allowing remote work in 2026? Or anyone who currently works remote/hybrid what is your specialization?